“People invariably chose inimitable people to imitate.”
― The Beautiful and Damned
― The Beautiful and Damned
“The fruit of youth or of the grape, the transitory magic of the brief passage from darkness to darkness - the old illusion that truth and beauty were in some way entwined.”
― The Beautiful and Damned
― The Beautiful and Damned
“Beauty is only to be admired, only to be loved - to be harvested carefully and then flung at a chosen lover like a gift of roses. It seems to me, so far as I can judge clearly at all, that my beauty would be used like that...”
― The Beautiful and Damned
― The Beautiful and Damned
“THE VOICE: (to BEAUTY) Your life on earth will be, as always, the interval between two significant glances in a mundane mirror.”
― The Beautiful and Damned
― The Beautiful and Damned
“Then I grew up, and the beauty of succulent illusions fell away from me.”
― The Beautiful and Damned
― The Beautiful and Damned
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